Piers Morgan penning book on CNN

Piers Morgan is set to publish a “warts and all” book about life behind the scenes at CNN, his publisher announced Wednesday.

Simon & Schuster imprint Gallery Books will release “Shooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God, and George Clooney” by the CNN host this October. The book — written in a real-time, diary format — will detail Morgan’s time at the network interviewing celebrities and world leaders, covering stories such as the killing of Osama bin Laden and the school shootings in Newtown, his controversial gun control advocacy campaign and “the trials and tribulations of anchoring a nightly cable news show in the world’s most ruthless, competitive, and pressurized media marketplace,” according to the press release.

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“There are few jobs more varied, dramatic, or exciting than anchoring a nightly cable news show, so I decided to record it, warts and all, in real time,” Morgan said in a statement. “Readers will go on the same journey I did – a pulsating, entertaining, terrifying, emotional and occasionally disastrous roller-coaster.”

“This is ‘The Newsroom’ on steroids,” he added.

Morgan — a former editor of the UK’s Daily Mirror who was fired in 2004 after the newspaper published photos of British troops abusing detainees that turned out to be fakes, and who has also been subject to questions over his possible connection, which he’s denied, to the tabloid’s phone-hacking — came to the United States in 2006 as a judge of “America’s Got Talent.” He later became the 2008 “Celebrity Apprentice” winner.

Morgan began hosting his CNN show in January 2011, and according to the press release, his new book will provide “a heartfelt account of Morgan’s extraordinary new life, and continuing love affair with America.”